One evening after dining at Schulenberg's 40-cent, five- course table d'hote (served as fast as you throw the five baseballs at the coloured gentleman's head) Sarah took away with her the
bill of fare. It was written in an almost unreadable script neither English nor German, and so arranged that if you were not careful you began with a toothpick and rice pudding and ended with soup and the day of the week.
The introduction to the work, or
bill of fare to the feast.
Instantly flinging a fresh cloth over the round table under the bronze chandelier, though it already had a table cloth on it, he pushed up velvet chairs, and came to a standstill before Stepan Arkadyevitch with a napkin and a
bill of fare in his hands, awaiting his commands.
I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little
bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive--as follows:
The celebrity of the bread-fruit tree, and the conspicuous place it occupies in a Typee
bill of fare, induces me to give at some length a general description of the tree, and the various modes in which the fruit is prepared.
Besides this effusion, there were innumerable complimentary allusions, also extracted from newspapers, such as--'We observe from an advertisement in another part of our paper of today, that the charming and highly-talented Miss Snevellicci takes her benefit on Wednesday, for which occasion she has put forth a
bill of fare that might kindle exhilaration in the breast of a misanthrope.
For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner --for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your
bill of fare is immutable.
That boy had a state-room with a hot and cold bath, and spent ten minutes each morning picking over a gilt-edged
bill of fare. And that same boy - no, his very much older brother -was up at four of the dim dawn in streaming, crackling oilskins, hammering, literally for the dear life, on a bell smaller than the steward's breakfast- bell, while somewhere close at hand a thirty-foot steel stem was storming along at twenty miles an hour!
They sat down at a vacant table and waited for the omelette which was the first article on the
bill of fare. Philip gazed with delight upon the passers-by.
The serene Teuton found the supper table and was happy, eating steadily through the
bill of fare, and dismayed the garcons by the ravages he committed.
This and some dried fruits and a flask of Monte Pulciano, was the
bill of fare. Dantes went on, looking from time to time behind and around about him.
Roast partridges, flanked with quails and flanking a larded leveret; boiled fowls; hams, fried and sprinkled with white wine, cardons of Guipuzcoa and la bisque ecrevisses : these, together with soups and hors d'oeuvres , constituted the governor's
bill of fare. Baisemeaux, seated at table, was rubbing his hands and looking at the bishop of Vannes, who, booted like a cavalier, dressed in gray and sword at side, kept talking of his hunger and testifying the liveliest impatience.
bill of fare - a list of dishes available at a restaurant; "the menu was in French"